Full name is João Olavo Soares de Souza...Nicknamed, 'Feijão' (which means 'bean' in English)..."Because of my colour and I like beans"...Father, Milton Soares de Souza Junior, and mother, Maria Angêla Lima...Started playing tennis aged nine in Mogi das Cruzes, at the Clube de Campo Mogi das Cruzes after watching his dad and sister Maria Clara play...Moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2005 and since then trains with Ricardo Acioly, former Davis Cup captain and Fernando Meligeni's coach...Plays with two-handed backhand...Favourite surface is clay courts...Idol growing up was Gustavo Kuerten...Has a weird ability to count letters in a sentence. In a Davis Cup tie, players would challenge his ability on a daily basis and he never missed one...Likes to listen to music, surf the internet and relax on the beach.

In August 2011, qualified and reached SF in Kitzbühel (l. to eventual champ Haase).

Thank you Bev, you must be The Encyclopedia Britannia of tennis! Where do you get this stuff from, do you know a close family member?

Thank you Bev, you must be The Encyclopedia Britannia of tennis! Where do you get this stuff from, do you know a close family member? Maybe he's good at counting unforced errors too! We'll see very soon.

It's on the ATP site under the player's profile.

Anyway, Bevc is talking about the Souza who's not playing Andy and here's his profile. We have a mix up here. The one Andy's playing is Ranked 100 and his name is Joao SouSa (Portugal) and other one is spelled Joao SouZa (Brazil) and ranked 131.

It is definitely Jaoa Sousa from Portugal and he's ranked 100. I am not sure how this mistake was done since I gave a description of Sousa just before the H2H page, but it's not a big deal. Bevc will sort it out when she's here tonight.

The funny thing is that David Mercer said in commentary during the Haase match that Sousa is ranked in the 130s. When they said the next day that he is 100 in the world I couldn't figure out how he'd climbed so fast lol.

The mix-up is understandable, I think, especially as Portuguese is the main language spoken in Brazil. Also a report on the Sousa/Smith match appeared in a Brazilian newspaper. Maybe though, as Joao is Portuguese for John, then Sousa or Souza could be as common as Smith? But as SouSa is the Portuguese No.1 I'd have thought the experts would at least have got it right.

The mix-up is understandable, I think, especially as Portuguese is the main language spoken in Brazil. Also a report on the Sousa/Smith match appeared in a Brazilian newspaper. Maybe though, as Joao is Portuguese for John, then Sousa or Souza could be as common as Smith? But as Sousa is the Portuguese No.1 then I'm a bit surprised at comms like Mercer getting it wrong.